Sherwood Low Distorted Signal

[gordon.gold]

Hello, I have been trying to make the sherwood pedal but I am running into an issue. When I hook the pedal up to my guitar and amp (without pedal enclosure) when strumming there is little to no noise coming through. I can hear the strumming if I turn the volume up really high but even with that the notes are distorted.

I am assuming that I have a short or an increase in resistance somewhere but I've been looking at this pedal for the better part of 2 days and can't figure it out. I have three things in my mind that I feel could be the answer.

1. The resistor values all appear to be correct before I solder them but when I put them in the board they seem to decrease

2. I have a cold joint somewhere

3. the large teal capacitors I used have a high voltage radical of 1.25kV

Here are some photos of the build.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

 

[gordon.gold]

measured voltages and found that the problem may be the diode, I'm replacing it currently

 

[Mcknib]

It's really difficult to see or trace anything clearly

We'd need an image looking down on the board so we can see all component values and orientation

I can't see how you've got your pots wired they should go to the underside of the pcb so may be working backwards